girobert 's review for:

5.0

3:34am bc couldn’t put it down. beautiful tender heartbreaking story set in 50s about Chinese American teenager who doesn’t feel quite Chinese enough or American enough. Lily befriends Kath, another girl who loves math and space and wants to fly airplanes and they adventure into the night attending a nightclub for “sexual deviates” if u will. this book is jarring in a good way, explores family control and acceptance (or lack of), queer chosen family and grief, hiding, shame, anger, love and it hurts. so bad.